The Society for
Personality and Social Psychology
states in its home page that it is an academic scientific society
that aims to advance a field of science.
However, that has changed. The organization has taken up
anti-racism
so intensely that campaigning against racism is its primary purpose
and research is secondary.
It is proper for any organization to try to avoid racism in its
activities. It is proper for any organization for research about
human beings to try to study a variety of groups of humans, because
not all humans are alike. In particular, not all societies are alike,
and in any one society people with different roles may be
systematically different.
However, the SPSP seems to have decided that every research project is
supposed to campaign against racism, and research which doesn't do
that is not worth publishing.
That is going too far, because it means that the ostensible purpose of
the organization is now of minor importance.
I could support an organization whose sole purpose is to campaign
against racism — depending on what methods it uses to do so. But we
should not convert a scientific organization into a political
campaign.